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1st May

 

 

Angier Griffin,
Lovaine House,
Percy Terrace,
Alnwick,
Northumberland
NE66 1AF
Tel: 0797 1162623
Fax: 0797 0092936
e-mail:
philip@angier-griffin.com

In the News!

Philip Angier becomes Chair of Alnwick Food Festival

Philip Angier has accepted the position of Chair of newly created Steering Committee to manager and promote the popular Alnwick Food Festival. The Northumberland Gazette announced that annual Food Festival, a significant event in the Alnwick tourism calendar, will take place on 18th & 19th September . Local Living, which Philip also chairs, will provide some of the trading and administrative support for the Festival.
Philip Angier speaks at Ridley Hall

Philip Angier was a guest speaker at Ridley Hall’s Faith in Business conference on 26th- 28th March 2010.

Click here to download a copy of Philip’s presentation and here for a copy of the supporting text.
 

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Philip Angier steps down as Shared Interest Chair

After 8 years as a Director and 5 years as Chair, Philip Angier bade farewell to Shared Interest members at their 20th Anniversary AGM in Newcastle on Philip Angier on 6th March at Newcastle’s Civic Centre. Philip is succeeded as Chair by Kate Priestley.

 

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There is a Santa!

It may have been a cold winter, but the Northerly winds have brought cheer to a number of projects with which Philip has worked in 2009. In November and December awards were announced for The Street, a new purpose-built youth facility in Scarborough sponsored by Coast & Moors Voluntary Action, for Pebbles art cafe in Allendale, for the Hextol Foundation sandwich delivery project, for a joint project between Middlesbrough Voluntary Development Agency and CapitaliSE on behalf of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund and for Local Living to promote an events programme at Alnwick Markets – all of which wrapped up a successful year [Ho! Ho!]
SolarAid with Charity Award

 

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SolarAid win Charity Award

 

SolarAid, the fast-growing solar energy charity of which Philip Angier is a Trustee, was recently awarded the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year at the Charity Times Awards for its partnership with founder organisation, Solarcentury

 

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Northumberland Prosperity Study

 

Angier-Griffin, in partnership with Local Living, has just completed a socio-economic study of social enterprise activity in Northumberland, funded by Northumberland County Council.
It is hoped that the report will be available on this website soon
 

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AnyBodyCan leads Quality & Impact study at Norcare

 

An AnyBodyCan project team led by Philip Angier is conducting a quality and impact study with supported housing providers Norcare and Aquila Way  The demonstration pilot, funded by the Northern Rock Foundation, will study the use of the Outcomes Star*  both as a toll for support planning with service users and as a means of aggregating data about quality and impact as management information and quality improvement tool.

Philip Angier will be delivering training in the use of  the Outcomes Star to Norcare Staff in the spring of 2009.

Click here to download a copy of the Project Report

* More information about the Outcomes Star can be found at www.homelessoutcomes.org.uk

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Events Diary

28th April 2010 - Durham
Built to Achieve Conference


The conference themes are about developing social enterprise and voluntary and community organisations, exploring routes to investment, innovation and growth. Key topics will include finance and funding, and public procurement and commissioning, helping you create your enterprise’s strategy with the help of experts.
For further information visits the website:
www.builttoachieve.co.uk/conference or contact
0191 281 5777 / businesslink@btob.co.uk.


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2nd & 3rd June 2010 – Brussels
“Restoring sense to finance” - INAISE International Conference


The worst financial turmoil since the 1930's has shaken the world and has led in its wake to a global economic crisis. Citizens ‘trust in the Finance industry has been severely damaged and new ways in finance are being looked for. Social finance in its various forms has shown a remarkable resilience against the crisis and experience a strong and growing interest from the public.
This conference will look at the reasons for that resilience and on how social finance can inspire mainstream finance and regulators in the attempts to reconnect finance with real economy - giving the sense back to finance.
INAISE is a global network of social finance organisations with a value based approach.
 

Click here to download a conference flier
 

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8th June 2010 - Liverpool
Social Value – Myth or Economic Reality


A Department of Health Conference showcasing a social value commissioning toolkit developed in partnership with Strategic Health Authorities


Click here to download flier


Stacey Chantler, Events Officer, NHS North West :
0161 625 7232 stacey.chantler@northwest.nhs.uk
 

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7th – 13th November 2010
National Ethical Investment Week 2010.

 

Visit www.neiw.org
 

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 Publications

Mapping Social Enterprise Activity in North East of England

Angier Griffin was commissioned by the North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP) to map the development of social enterprise activity in the North East on England over the past four years. Philip Angier’s report, now published, offers encouragement to those who believe in the importance of the sector with evidence of growth both in the number and economic contribution of social enterprises in the North East.

 

Click here to download a copy of the report

 

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Conversations with a Social Entrepreneur

Philip Angier has collected and edited a series of his articles originally printed in Social Enterprise magazine. They encompass a broad range of issues faced by young and growing social enterprises from cash flow crises to marketing dilemmas, team-building to warnings against taking ourselves too seriously.

 

Intended to be read at leisure ‘with a cup of fair trade coffee or a glass of fair trade wine to hand’ – you can browse the articles on the web or download them as a .pdf file. 

 

Click here to download Conversations with a Social Entrepreneur

 

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DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment


In July 2007, the New Economics Foundation published its DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI). SROI is a method for measuring and reporting the social, environmental and economic outputs of an organisation and giving those outputs a financial value. SROI compares the value of benefits against the cost of achieving the benefits. The ten stage guide is available free from their website. However, you will have to register to access the publication.
 

For further information please follow this link.

 

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Proving and Improving – a quality and impact toolkit for social enterprises

The quality and impact toolkit for social enterprise was launched by New Economics Foundation and the Social Enterprise Partnership in July 2005. Angier Griffin and the Valuing the Difference project have been actively involved in the development of the toolkit, which has been developed as a result of the Social Enterprise Partnership’s EQUAL project.

The Toolkit may be viewed (and downloaded as a pdf) on www.proveandimprove.org

For further information e-mail: imPROVEit@neweconomics.org

 

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How much should we pay ourselves?

Philip Angier tackled the thorny issues of pay, rewards, wealth, consumption and sustainability in a talk to Durham Diocese’s Off the Radar study group on 2nd June.

Click here to download a copy of the talk.

 

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Seizing the Opportunities and Overcoming the Barriers for Refugees wanting to set up their own businesses in the North East.

 

Angier Griffin has recently completed and published this report. Funded by ONE NorthEast and compiled in partnership with the Regional Refugee Forum North East, the report list 19 recommendations for improving access to business support services for the new refugee communities now settled in the North East.

 

Click here to download a copy or contact Philip Angier (Cost Ł3.00 including p&p)

 

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Lesson Learned the Hard Way – a disarmingly honest look at how to grow up as a social business, published by the Furniture Resource Group, Liverpool with support from Esmee Fairbiarn Foundation. For copies contact: www.frcgroup.co.uk

 

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Social Enterprise in Anytown –  a new book arguing the importance of social enterprise in tackling disadvantage by community development expert, John Pearce.

 

Published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation copies can be obtained from: orders@centralbooks.com


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